الرسالة الشمسية في القواعد المنطقية

مقدمة

Najm al-Din al-Katibi wrote “The Treatise for Shams al-Din on the Rules of Logic” (al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya) in the second half of the thirteenth century for a patron named Shams al-Din. It opens by defining logic as a rule whose observance guards the mind from error in thinking and then treats terms, definitions, propositions with their modalities, conversion, contradiction and the syllogism, including a detailed account of thirteen modal propositions that goes beyond Ibn Sina. Read with the commentary of Qutb al-Din al-Razi al-Tahtani and the glosses of al-Sharif al-Jurjani, it was a central text of logic teaching in madrasas from the fourteenth century to the present, and al-Taftazani wrote a further commentary on it. Tony Street published an edition with English translation and commentary in 2024.

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